56 Bonomiana
CODICE: 56
Morphological characteristics
FLOWER
- FLOWER
- Formal double
- DIAMETER
- 6,0 cm
- DEPTH
- Formal double
- SIZE
- Small
- PETALS
- Number: 65
Shape: Rounded (outer petals), elliptical (inner petals)
Surface: Flat, occasionally slightly convex
Margin: Linear, occasionally fringed
Color: Pink (65 B) - STAMEN
- Number: 0
Disposition: -
Filament’s color: -
Anther’s color: - - PETALOIDS
- Number: 0
Disposition: - - VARIEGATIONS
- Type: Stripes, dots, and marblings
Color: Stripes and dots - Strong Purplish Red (58 C); marblings Pinkish White (155 B) - OTHER FEATURES/NOTES
- Other features/notes: -
LEAF
- LUNGTH
- 7,5 – 9,5 cm
- WIDTH
- 4,2 – 5,0 cm
- SHAPE
- Blade: Ovate
Apex: Acute
Margin: Briefly serrated - COLOR
- Upper page: 147 A
Lower page: 146 B
Plant observed
- Location
- San Secondo di Pinerolo, Park of Miradolo Castle (TO)
- Number
- 56
- Origin of the mother plant
- Villa Durazzo Pallavicini (Genoa) – N. 114
- Blooming
- Period: Medium early Density: Low
- Where to observe the same variety
- Villa Taranto (VB)
Historical and bibliographical information
- Origin
- Italian
- Year of constitution
- 1858 circa
- Breeder
- Sangalli - Milano
- Synonyms
- ‘Bonomiana Alba’, ‘Fain’s Best’
- First known description
- Van Houtte, 1858, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l’Europe, vol. 13, p. 9: “The flowers are medium sized, formal double, with over 80 petals, pure white background marked with bands and speckles of bright carmine.”
- Additional citations
- Mercatelli, 1881, Catalogo delle Camelie, p. 12, Firenze. Rovelli, 1896-97, 1904-06 Regione Piemonte, Camelie dell’Ottocento nel Verbano, 2000, vol. I, p. 68-69. P. Hillebrand, 2003, Antiche camelie del Lago Maggiore, p. 107. 2006, Le Antiche Camelie dei Rovelli, p. 72-73.
- First known illustration
- Verschaffelt, 1859, Nouvelle Iconographie, liv. 11, pl. 3.
- Additional illustrations
- -
- Notes and remarks
- This cultivar originated, through spontaneous mutation, the beautiful Portuguese cultivar 'Doutor Balthazar de Mello', which, in addition to the aforementioned characteristics, has fimbriated petal margins. The cultivar 'Bonomiana' is present in the list of the Catalogue of Plants of the Acclimatization Gardens of the Borromean Islands, printed in Intra (Verbania) in 1906.
